The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-21
COMMENT AND OPINION.

EXCELLENT Michigan salt is now sold at 81
cents barrel, about one-quarter the price in
free-trade times. And yet the free-traders are
bowling to have the duty on salt abolished.
Chicago Journal
SOME Of the Indiana Democrats are ashamed
Of the exposure of their party scoundrels, but
It is well to remember that in the Indiana
Democracy the scouudrels claim a clear major
Philadelphia Press
WHOEVER imaeines that the American people
VIII consent to the repeal Of the fiscal taxes on
drink and smoke with more than a billion of the
war debt remaining unpaid has poor opinion Of
their intelligence and patriotism. Philadelphia
Record.
: Is the millennium at hand9 With the New
York boodlers in the penitentiary or Canada, the
Cincinnati election thieves in JAIL the Chicago
officials locked up, the ST. Louis 'fxersn aud
even the Texas intimidators indicted it looks
like the millennium was approaching. -National
Republican.
stop guessing that their bridges are all right and
safe. The only way to do this is to make them
do it. Some of them have been guilty of trilng
with human life too long already. The people
are, loudly protesting, and it is wise railroad
company that needs the warning.
Tribune.
AS wa have said again and again, in speaking
of this whole wretched business so now we repeat
that the only way in which the public can COM
pei that care which shall insure its safety is to
atty known to the law-every penalty that can
reach money-chest and body.-New York Com
merclal Advertiser.
LET the men who dote on free rides on the
railroads take heart Of hope. Senator Cullom
has lust expressed the opinion that there Ia
nothing in the provisions of his interstate-com-
merce law which absolutely forbids the issuance
of passes or the sale of communication tickets
This will put Few life into the deadheads
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Te Telegraph.
candidate. The fres-trade Democrats do not
like him, but they would all vote for him. On
the other hand, he would get the votes of the
younger class of Democrats in the South who
are growing more and more FESTIVE under the
rule of the old leaders, whose notions date from
"befo the wah. milwaukee, Sentinel.
IT was not the Blaine faction which sulked
in its tents during either the Hayes or Garfield
campaigns. Whatever other faults Mr. Blaine
may have committed, that of knitting candidates
who have been made the standard bearers of the
party. for his own selfish ends, cannot be
brought home to him, in any campaign where
national supremacy was at stake-Pittspure
Dispatch.
THE caparity for whole-cloth, unvarnished
lying when his been developed since the report
controlling interest in the stock Of the Balti.
more e. Ohio Railroad Company would have
made Sir John Falstaf envious. He was an ac-
complished liar but the Wall street liar sur.
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Philadelphia Record.
IT would seem from present indications that
! the commission is to be composed in whole or
large part of broken down politicians; that is to
| say, of Democrats who were defeated, like Nor
rison of Illinois, for election to Congress, and
| of Republican mugwumps. What is to be ex.
| pected of a Commission composed in that wayl
| The railroad managers can buy them once q
| week and not feel it-Cincinnati Commercial
| Gazette.
| No article can be boycotted without hurting
the laborers employed in its production more
than the person, firm or corporation at which
| the boycott is aimed. The few experiments al
ready made in this line have demonstrated this
fact very clearly, and the continued adoption
and enforcement of the boycott only adds to the
number of workingmen permanently alienated
from the organizations responsible for it-Phila-
dephia Times
THE people of this State do not want the civil
service act repealed. They do want to see di-
minished the number of places where liquor ID
sold. to have their character improved and their
contribution increased towards paying the ex.
pense of crime and pauperism due to the traffic.
| Do the Democratic legislators imagine their
| party will be helped by making it the champion
of spoils-hunting and the ally of tie rum powerl
| If SO, they are wofully mistaken.-New York
| World